ABSTRACT

The main point of my thesis is that Shelley's utopian

thought shows a great deal of analogy with that of early

Marx. The first chapter is an introduction to the central

concern of Shelley and Marx who both aim at liberating man

from alienating institutions. They believe that there 1S a

natural order in man, which necessitates his absorption

into both the human community and nature. In order to give

a more complete illustration of Shelley's and Marx's utopian

thought, I look upon world history as divided into four

stages. In the second chapter, I try to clarify Shelley's

often obscure intuitive thought in regard to religion,

politics, economy and man's integration with nature by

expounding Marx's scientific thought on the same topics.

In the third chapter, I show that the main difference

between Shelley's and Marx's utopian thought is that Shelley

insists that man's means of integration into nature is

found in love, sympathy, and imagination, while for Marx,

the same goal is achieved through labor. In the fourth

chapter, I analyze Prometheus Unbound as an artistic expression

of Shelley's idea of man's liberation from alienating,

despotic institution. I conclude that Shelley's

poetic thought still retains an appeal for modern man,

because it stresses the highest spiritual qualities in man

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